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La Commission européenne désavoue son commissaire à l’Agriculture sur le Green Deal

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:47
L’annonce du commissaire à l’Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski concernant des modifications majeures du Pacte vert pour l’Europe (Green Deal) est sa propre opinion et ne reflète pas la position de l’exécutif de l’UE, a déclaré un porte-parole de la Commission.
Categories: Union européenne

EPP eyes socialists, liberals for pro-EU coalition as Breton questions von der Leyen

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:38
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is eyeing a pro-EU, pro-centrist coalition with the socialists and liberals after June's EU elections, an EPP source told Euractiv, adding that the Greens are not on their radar while cooperation with some parties on the right who want to distance themselves from extreme rhetoric is not ruled out.
Categories: European Union

Ukraine presses its peace plan in talks with Chinese envoy

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:32
Senior Ukrainian officials, in a meeting with a Chinese regional envoy on Thursday (7 March), pressed Kyiv's plan to end the two-year conflict with Russia and presented what they said was evidence of North Korean weaponry supplied to Moscow.
Categories: European Union

Marcel Fratzscher: „Klares Signal für Kehrtwende verpasst – EZB könnte alten Fehler wiederholen“

Zu den Ergebnissen der jüngsten Sitzung des Rates der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) äußert sich Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:

Die EZB hätte ein klares Signal für eine Kehrtwende ihrer Geldpolitik und eine baldige Zinssenkung geben sollen. Die Entscheidung der EZB und ihre Kommunikation sind eine verpasste Chance, mehr Klarheit zu schaffen und die Finanzierungsbedingungen zu verbessern. Damit bleibt die Geldpolitik eine der wichtigsten Bremsen für die Konjunktur und für die schwachen Investitionen in der Eurozone und in Deutschland.

Die EZB läuft Gefahr, ihren Fehler von vor zwei Jahren zu wiederholen und zu spät zu handeln, denn Geldpolitik entfaltet ihre volle Wirkung erst nach anderthalb bis zwei Jahren. Die Inflation in der Eurozone ist deutlich gesunken und die Inflationserwartungen sind schon jetzt konsistent mit der Preisstabilität. Die von der EZB immer wieder betonte Sorge vor sogenannten Zweitrundeneffekten – vor allem, dass die Inflation zu höheren Löhnen und einer stärkeren Nachfrage führt – hat sich bisher nicht bewahrheitet. Es ist richtig, dass Löhne steigen und auch die Lohnstückkosten zulegen. Aber dies sind notwendige temporäre Aufholeffekte. Es gibt keinerlei Anzeichen für permanente Effekte, beispielsweise durch eine Lohn-Preis-Spirale, durch die sich eine höhere Inflation verfestigen könnte.

Die Wahrscheinlichkeit ist heute höher, dass die EZB ihr Ziel der Preisstabilität über die nächsten drei Jahre unterschießen wird, als dass die Inflation zu hoch bleiben wird. Dies würde nicht nur die Glaubwürdigkeit der EZB erodieren, sondern könnte auch der Wirtschaft einen empfindlichen Schaden zufügen.

From Cameroon to handcuffs to Olympic hopeful

BBC Africa - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:15
Boxer Cindy Ngamba tells BBC Sport about her journey from Cameroon to England and the challenges she has faced in trying to earn a spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Categories: Africa

Romanian European funds minister displeased with 3% deficit obligation

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:09
Romania must escape the poverty paradigm if it wants to be a prosperous country, Investment and European Projects Minister Adrian Câciu said on Thursday in reference to the Maastricht Treaty, which states that a nation’s debt cannot exceed 3% of GDP.
Categories: European Union

Sarajevo works on approving key reforms to join EU as deadline approaches

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:08
The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously adopted and sent to parliament the draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest in the state institutions, one of the key reform laws the EU insists on so the European Council can decide on opening accession negotiations by the end of this month, they announced on Wednesday.
Categories: European Union

L’Italie est sur la bonne voie malgré une dette publique record, selon un expert de l’OCDE

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:08
La dette publique record de l’Italie — l’un des ratios dette/PIB les plus élevés au monde — n’est pas une source d’inquiétude car le pays est toujours sur la bonne voie, a déclaré le directeur des Affaires financières et des Entreprises de l’OCDE à Euractiv.
Categories: Union européenne

Slovakia summons Dutch ambassador over embassy event in Prague

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:06
The Slovak Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Slovakia, claiming that the Dutch had interfered in Slovakia’s internal affairs by offering the premises of their embassy in Prague for a discussion on the political situation in Slovakia.
Categories: European Union

Czech government reveals plans for new gigafactory, investor name withheld

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:05
Plans for constructing a gigafactory for the production of batteries for electric cars worth €7.9 billion by a foreign investor - whose name is being withheld - in the Karviná region were disclosed by the Czech government on Thursday.
Categories: European Union

EU Commission denounces Wojciechowski’s announcement on Green Deal changes

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:04
Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski’s announcement of major changes to the European Green Deal is his own view and does not reflect the position of the EU executive, a Commission spokesman said on Thursday.
Categories: European Union

New forest monitoring data framework needs to get below tree line [Advocacy Lab Content]

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:04
The EU’s new and evolving forest monitoring framework has lawmakers contesting the benefits of harvesting optimum broad data sets, weighted against cost burdens for the forestry industry in acquiring the data.
Categories: European Union

US to build temporary port to deliver Gaza aid

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:01
The US military will establish a temporary port off Gaza's coast to bring in desperately needed aid, President Joe Biden announced Thursday (7 March), in a major operation as Israel holds up deliveries on the ground.
Categories: European Union

Phénomène géologique inquiétant: Il y a soixante ans, le quai de Saint-Gingolph se volatilisait

24heures.ch - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:00
Le 8 mars 1964, dans la nuit, un éboulement sous-lacustre a brusquement englouti le bord de la berge, débarcadère compris.
Categories: Swiss News

Promote Women’s Safety in Our Streets. Join the #SafePlace4Women campaign! [Promoted content]

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 07:00
On the International Women's Day, the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions calls upon cities and regions to adopt an ambitious plan to combat violence against women with concrete measures. Join the campaign
Categories: European Union

Le gouvernement tchèque dévoile les plans d’une gigafactory de batteries pour voitures électriques

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 06:55
Le gouvernement tchèque a dévoilé les plans de construction d'une « gigafactory » destinée à la production de batteries pour voitures électriques, d'une valeur de 7,9 milliards d'euros, par un investisseur étranger dont le nom n'a pas été divulgué, dans la région de Karviná.
Categories: Union européenne

Portugal’s right-wing likely to win elections but ‘surprises’ possible

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 06:55
A victory for the right-wing bloc in Sunday’s general elections in Portugal is the most likely scenario, but there is uncertainty whether there will be a need for an agreement with the far-right Chega party, according to two political analysts who spoke to Euractiv’s partner Lusa, adding that there could be ‘surprises’.
Categories: European Union

Spain strikes Catalan amnesty deal, paves way for full Sánchez term

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 06:53
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party, which leads a minority left-wing coalition government with the progressive Sumar platform, reached a final deal with Catalan pro-independence parties to pardon separatist leaders in exchange for their parliamentary support to keep Sánchez in power until the end of his second term in 2027.
Categories: European Union

Italy on the right track despite record-breaking public debt, says OECD expert

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 06:42
Italy’s record public debt – one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the world – is not a cause for concern as the country is still on the right track, the OECD’s Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Carmine di Niola, told Euractiv in an interview.
Categories: European Union

Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in feisty State of the Union speech

Euractiv.com - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 06:42
President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday (7 March), accusing his election rival of threatening US democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House.
Categories: European Union

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